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title: In the 1800s children worked in mines and mills; in 1989 the UN agre… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1800s children worked in mines and mills; in 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Who acts: children, UN. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 11

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In the 1800s children worked in mines and mills; in 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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**Who acts:** children, UN · **What happens:** work, agree · **To what, where:** Convention, 1989

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, UN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:11
# text = In the 1800s children worked in mines and mills; in 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Convention	convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Child	child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | children |  |  |  |  | in mines and mills; in the 1800s | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1800=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the UN | the Convention |  | 1989 |  | on the Rights of the Child | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent convention=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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